Gaming could be much be better on a VR/AR device, and a reason to put on a "ugly sweat box" initially. Apple did not go deep into that, only a brief segment about the Unity collab. Maybe gaming is not their forte right now.
Apple Vision v3 will not be a sweat box. And even right now, Occulus interface has to evolve to match this. Controller has to be optional. It has to be AR.
a similar but smaller policy based simulation game:
You are the government leader of a nation and a new pandemic is starting.
The science is not clear yet. How do you manage as the leader? What policies do you set up? What research do you pursue? Along with variables of budgets, economy, population morale, upcoming elections, travel, etc.
If there was a good model of how the policies affect economy especially, it would reveal to the players how hard lock-downs are on the economy.
If the dynamic between the federal state and city governments are modeled, it would show us how actual policy implementation happens. Just even how hard it is to test and track the spread of a pandemic.
This could indicate to people how hard it is to lead in such a situation. At the same time help the player evaluate how things were handled recently.
You are right, people are probably missing a lot of things in plain-sight. Most of the comments are about some esoteric product or software - so nothing to add to the shopping list :)
Only recognize Google apps and Apple hardware from the other comments - they are great.